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Semiotic Neighborhoods Ilpo Koskinen Semiotic Neighborhoods Ilpo Koskinen This paper was first presented at the Introduction “Nordiskt seminarium om urban- och boende- In his Philosophy of Money, the classic sociologist Georg Simmel noted forskning” in Hanasaari, Helsinki, November that industrial products “lack the spiritual determinacy that can be 17–19, 2002. In addition to the participants easily perceived in a product of labor that is wholly the work of a in that conference, I would like to thank Visa single person.” When produced in large quantities, products have Heinonen, Mika Pantzar, Nely Keinänen, Pekka Korvenmaa, Victor Margolin, and the review- to be designed so they are “acceptable and enjoyable to a very large ers of Design Issues. number of individuals,” and therefore “cannot be designed for subjective differentiation of taste.” In contrast, some products still have a personality: we can personally relate to them. For Simmel, such products include works of art, philosophical treatises, and crafts.1 Markets certainly have understood the craving for more personalized products. Take the example of a design icon, the “Juicy Salif“ lemon squeezer, designed for Alessi by Philippe Starck. In the summer of 2000, the Juicy Salif sold for 40 Euros in Helsinki (a gold-plated one sold for 150 Euros). The fact that it is practically unusable makes it easy to see as an object of art. If it were displayed in a museum, it would be no more than an object of reflection. In ordinary contexts, however, it is available for use. An analysis of this object can focus on the product, but also on the designer, the company, or even the art and design world. It offers multiple possi- bilities for reflexive consumers who seek to build their identities through design objects, fashion, and art. It also is partly through 1 G. Simmel, The Philosophy of Money these objects that people define good taste.2 (London: Routledge, 1990), 454–7. These are “semiotic goods”: most of their economic value is 2 M. Featherstone, Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (London: Sage, 1994); based on meanings people give them rather than their functionality, S. Lash, Another Modernity, a Different be these iconic, indexical, or symbolic. Unlike unsigned products, or Rationality (London: Blackwell, 1999); P. products from flea markets, these meanings support and maintain Bourdieu, Distinction (London: RKP, 1986); significant parts of the economy. Today, the worldwide worth of G. Simmel, ibid. the luxury retail sector alone, depending on the estimate, is 55–100 3 WWW information from www.hsbc.com, billion Euros. This sector makes its living mainly from fragrances, www.mintel.com. 4 G. Esping-Andersen, The Three Worlds cosmetics, jewelry, watches, accessories, and fashion. Its main market on Welfare Capitalism (Cambridge: Polity, is Asia, followed by the United States and Europe.3 In addition to 1990); and J. B. Pine and J. H. Gilmore, goods, “semiotized” services and experiences are a part of our The Experience Economy (Boston: everyday life. In the U.S., since the early 1960s “fun services” and Harvard University Press, 1999). “experience industries” have grown faster than other sectors of the 5 J. Baudrillard, The Consumer Society 4 (London: Sage, 1998); and J. Baudrillard, economy. Some theorists have generalized that this development is Symbolic Exchange and Death (London: part of a postmodern world in which the real world is so absorbed Sage, 1999). into signs that people cannot escape from this signed reality.5 © 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Design Issues: Volume 21, Number 2 Spring 2005 13 Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/0747936053630142 by guest on 26 September 2021 The received wisdom is that this new consumption scene originated among the new, high-earning middle classes in global cities, with a recent estimate putting their number at fifty million worldwide.6 This new consumption also has changed the look and feel of the shopping environment. While cities have lost many of their department stores, they have gained “megastores,” shops-in- shops, flagship stores, posh restaurants, cafés, art galleries, antique stores, and luxury retail shops. In this paper, I call some areas with a high concentration of these types of places of consumption “semi- otic neighborhoods.” These areas live off selling and manufacturing semiotic goods. They are different from entertainment districts, which have a high concentration of movie theaters, theaters, restau- rants, and bars. They also differ from malls. Unlike malls, semiotic neighborhoods are historical creations in which the streets belong to people, property ownership is decentralized, and passersby are exposed to a full scale of life rather than to a managed version of it. Semiotic Neighborhoods Downtown areas have dominated consumption for much of the twentieth century. Consumption in downtown areas is led by trad itional department stores. Another dominant form of trade today follows suburban expansion. As suburbs have grown in North America and in Europe, retail trade has followed popula- tion to the suburbs, where retail corporations and developers have 6 S. Sassen, The Global City: New York, created large, centrally managed malls and retail parks. In terms London, Tokyo (Princeton: Princeton of services, more upscale malls resemble higher-end department University Press, 1991); M. Savage, stores, with boutiques embedded in them. Typically catering to the et al., Property, Bureaucracy, and middle-classes, department stores and malls offer a wide range of Culture (London: Routledge, 1995); www.mintel.com; and P. Ray and S. goods and services, some of higher quality than others, but overall, 7 Anderson, The Cultural Creatives (New their business is geared towards the middle-income customer. Less York: Three Rivers Press, 2000). mobile classes and younger customers consume in what sociologist 7 G. McCracken, Culture and Consumption: Sharon Zukin calls “neighborhood shopping streets.” 8 New Approaches to Symbolic Character In contrast to these forms of mass consumption, exclusive of Consumer Goods and Activities goods traditionally have been available for the rich in the first type (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988); R. Sennett, “The Fall of the Public of semiotic neighborhoods. As Lewis Mumford noted in The Culture Man” in On the Social Psychology of of Cities, hand-crafted, quality goods with extraordinary prices are Capitalism (New York: Vintage, 1978); available for the traditional upper classes in places such as New and M. B. Miller, The Bon Marché: Bond Street, Rue de la Paix, and Madison Avenue.9 As they are exclu- Bourgeois Culture and the Department sively upper-class, goods and services in these streets and neighbor- Store, 1869–1920 (London: Allen & Unwin, 1981). hoods are far beyond the reach of ordinary consumers, except for 8 S. Zukin, The Cultures of Cities (Malden, window-shopping. Some of these streets have existed for centuries, MA: Blackwell, 1999). Of course, at the and typically are rooted in royal courts and aristocratic consumption high end of department stores, luxury in Europe, and in their capitalist equivalents in North America. brands typically are present as shops-in- A more recent development has created another type of shops. Here, the line between boutiques semiotic neighborhood: designer streets and quarters. At the more and department stores vanishes. 9 L. Mumford, Kaupunkikulttuuri (Porvoo, exclusive end, there are a few ultimate designer streets: Avenue Finland: WSOY, 1949), 214. (Originally, Montaigne and Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré in Paris, the quadri- The Culture of Cities.) latero in Milan, London’s Sloane Street, and parts of New York’s Fifth 14 Design Issues: Volume 21, Number 2 Spring 2005 Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/0747936053630142 by guest on 26 September 2021 Avenue.10 Similar displays of luxury exist in all global cities.11 Smaller cities and less exclusive areas in global cities have developed local versions of these luxury streets, as witnessed by the examples of 10 For a recent and amusing analysis of luxury Strøget in Copenhagen and North Esplanade in Helsinki. Shops in products, shops, producers, and custom- these streets offer a vast selection of goods, ranging in price from 5 ers on these streets, see J. B. Twitchell, Euro key rings, to 25,000 Euro jackets to 100,000 Euro watches and Living It Up: America’s Love Affair with Luxury (New York: Simon & Schuster, upwards. 2002). Twitchell studies in detail Semiotic neighborhoods have many functions in cities. They boutiques on Rodeo Drive (Beverly Hills), supply people with goods, services, and experiences with which Worth Avenue (Miami), Las Vegas; as they may construe identities and partake in conspicuous consump- well as “mothership shops” in midtown tion. They attract tourism, educated residents, and creative inhabit- Manhattan. ants. Their indirect economic effects come through services such 11 S. Sassen, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. For Sassen, global cities as restaurants, museums, coffee shops, and elegant magazines. are cities capable of envisioning, orga- Furthermore, these areas may become important elements in build- nizing, and financing business as well ing a city’s image. These neighborhoods also connect local society as other activities on a global scale. to global taste, and provide the cultural understanding any modern They are central nodes in the most economy needs to function. Finally, they provide work for local recent
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